Am I right in thinking there are no AM3 uATX Mobos ?

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I'm building a new HTPC

specs are as follows for intel route:

Antec Fusion case
Intel Q6700 (the 45nm Quads are too expensive, and want Quad for encoding)
4gb RAM
Mobo - best I can get <100 - on-board decoding not really needed
ATI 4670 (or 4650) graphics card

now as an alternate the Q6700 I was considering the Phenom II 720 - but no uATX boards seem to be AM3 compatible is this right ?

any recommendations on the Intel mobo please ? I was thinking the Gigabyte 9400 based and the Asus 9300 based boards, but with their on-board decoding GPU - they seem to have almost nuclear northbridges/gpus - I'd rather have a decent mobo and a separate graphics card - only restriction to the mobo is that it has an optical or coaxial digital out.

thanks, Mark.
 
the Intel option ....

I know the G45 is a bit overkill but the mobo is good at overclocking .. and has coaxial digital out

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ok - perhaps I'm getting confused

the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2h mobo does seem to support AM3 ? BUT would this be right out of the box ? Or would it need a bios flash ? (not easy when you haven't a CPU to start with ...)

thanks, Mark.
 
Yea it should support Am3 but you will probably have to upgrade bios first, if you don't have the cpu you can ask the shop to do it for you.I don't think it's gonna be a problem for them.
 
thanks for replies

went for the Gigabyte 9400 based mobo in the end + E7400 CPU + 4gb Buffallo Firestix + Mini Ninja

decided it was pointless having 2 power hungry Quad based systems, so any encoding I'll do on my main machine

should be ok :)
 
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